There's a common trope among the pro-pipeline crowd that opposing new fossil fuel projects somehow should deny you access to anything fossil fuel related. It's a ridiculous notion, but with it so widespread, I'm willing to accept it, with one caveat. If I have to give up anything fossil fuel related in my life, pipeline pushers have accept their own version. If opposing new fossil fuel projects means not using fossil fuels, promoting new fossil fuel projects that would wreck the climate should m

Bill 41, the Patients First Act, became law on Dec. 7, 2016 -- an announcement met with disappointment and even outright anger by front-line doctors across Ontario.
So much anger that, with the support of the Ontario Medical Association, doctor after doctor after doctor, from all corners of Ontario, are resigning from committees tasked with turning the Patients First Act into reality.
They will still care for their patients and serve their communities.But doctors will no longer help the governme

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is claiming victory in his campaign to craft a national "framework" agreement on climate change — even though Saskatchewan and Manitoba remains provincial holdouts.
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall's full-throated opposition to the plan, which includes imposing a price on carbon, was fully expected going into today's day-long first ministers meeting.
But surprise resistance from British Columbia's Christy Clark and Manitoba's Brian Pallister threa

OTTAWA — Loud but predictable opposition to a federal carbon tax by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall may be overshadowed by a bigger threat to a pan-Canadian climate deal from British Columbia and Premier Christy Clark.
Clark says issues of carbon price equivalency between direct carbon taxation — such as in B.C. — and Quebec and Ontario's cap-and-trade markets must be resolved before she'll sign on to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plan for an escalating tax.
"It might not be t

OTTAWA — Some last-minute megaphone diplomacy by B.C. Premier Christy Clark appears to have secured a deal on a pan-Canadian climate plan — but Saskatchewan remains outside the fold.
Moments after Clark emerged from a first ministers meeting with Justin Trudeau to publicly kneecap the prime minister's signature climate plan, word emerged of a compromise.
Trudeau had unilaterally imposed an escalating floor price on carbon dioxide emissions, starting at $10 in 2018 and topping out at

I always approach my Emergency Department (ED) shifts with mixed emotions.It is a rewarding and privileged opportunity to be an ED doctor but it is also an experience laced with uncertainty.As I drive in to start my shift, my mind works through the various scenarios I may encounter: pediatric patient without a heartbeat, trauma patient who needs an emergency airway, severe anaphylactic shock, violent patient, etc. The broader scenario also weighing on me is the volume of patients I will see that

The man tasked with bringing thousands of Syrian refugees to Canada says that while most Canadians were quick to embrace them, his government still "has to work very hard" to convince some people to embrace these new arrivals.

The House of Commons rotunda was alive with the sound of singing Syrian refugee children on Thursday.
The kids, all between the ages of six and 13, performed classic and original songs before an audience that included Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Immigration Minister John McCallum and Liberal MP Arif Virani.Great voices & adorable kids. What a pleasure to hear the Syrian refugees of the @NaiKidsChoir perform today on the Hill. pic.twitter.com/T5QCv6Knhq— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudea

A few weeks ago, we were talking about the tricky balance between quality content and users' (supposedly) limited attention span.
Well, a lot can happen in a few weeks, and by now we all know what's been going on with our friends to the south. More than a few of us have been wondering what's happened to public discourse, and how the conversation's gotten so degraded.
A lot of attention's been focused on "the media," as if that's a large uniform entity, and on the role played by both corporate me

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has made clear he wants buy-American rules in the massive infrastructure program he's planning, launching an ardent defence of domestic-purchase requirements that can cause tensions with other countries.
Critics of such buy-American provisions say it not only freezes out foreign competition, but hurts Americans too, by driving up the cost of construction, which means taxpayers get fewer roads and bridges for their buck and fewer construction jobs in the long run.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently expressed frustration around the current cannabis landscape, explaining, "Until we have brought in the proposed system... the current prohibition stands," and encouraging police to enforce the law, particularly as it pertains to the continued expansion of medical cannabis dispensaries in major cities across Canada.
The response has been one of uniform frustration from many angles, but I don't believe Justin Trudeau actually lied about the Liberal party's in

Canada's first ministers are finalizing the details of a national climate change strategy to be announced at a high-level meeting in Ottawa today, but Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has made it clear he won't sign on to make it unanimous.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a "pan-Canadian framework" to fight climate change and meet Canada's commitments to cut carbon emissions by 2030 — but a day of intense talks failed to get all premiers onside.

The first ministers meeting on climate change hit a potentially fatal roadblock Friday evening as B.C., Saskatchewan and Manitoba signalled they weren't willing to sign on to the national climate plan because the price on carbon disproportionately punishes Western provinces. CBCnews.ca will carry the closing press conference live.

U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden sought to reassure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers Friday that the imminent administration change does not mean his country has given up on the fight to tackle climate change.

The push to sign a national climate strategy hit a snag Friday as British Columbia started to show signs of unease with increasing its provincial carbon tax, and has joined forces with Saskatchewan to stymie parts of the agreement, federal and provincial sources told CBC News.

The procession of former military officers nominated for top jobs in Donald Trump’s administration is raising concerns over whether the appointments could defy an American constitutional tenet: civilian oversight of government.

OTTAWA — U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be a defender of the international — "rules of the road'" to help shepherd the world through a period of deep uncertainty.
Biden delivered that message in a stirring speech at a state dinner in his honour in Ottawa on Thursday night, in which he singled out the fight against climate change as the most important issue of this generation.
Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden shake hands during an official dinner

Twelve-year-old Autumn Peltier didn't get to deliver her speech in the presence of the prime minister, but she's still spreading her message that the Canadian government needs to protect the country's water.
Peltier, who is from Wikwemikong First Nation in Ontario, had been asked to be part of the introduction of Justin Trudeau at the Assembly of First Nations' annual meeting on Tuesday. She had prepared three handwritten pages of a speech.
"I’m not here to just have fun to travel and anyt

Spurred on by this year's fast-tracking of displaced Syrians, nearly 30,000 more people are in line to come to Canada as refugees — but they are likely in for a wait, as the government is lowering its target for refugee resettlement in the coming year.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers and territorial leaders are expected to agree on a blueprint for a national framework on climate change Friday that will see Canada meet its commitments under the Paris agreement.

OTTAWA — A veteran Conservative MP asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to fire Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef, suggesting that she is bungling her job.
Longtime Saskatchewan MP Tom Lukiwski asked Monsef if she realized that the reason she and the government are being ridiculed is because their MyDemocracy.ca survey is ridiculous.
The Liberals launched the website earlier this week in effort to consult more broadly on the changes Canadians want to see in the voti

Warren Allmand, the native Montrealer and lifelong politician who, as solicitor general in 1976, tabled the bill to end capital punishment in Canada, will be remembered as a defender of human rights and a fighter for social justice.

"The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt. 'Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'" -- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954Lord of the Flies is a classic 21st century novel that describes how a group of English schoolboys stranded on a desert island descend from civilization into savagery.
Initially, Ralph emerges as the natural charismatic leader, employing his reason and pragmatism to institute a system of smoke signals, plans for building shel

Co-authored by Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation; Reiner Hoffmann, Chairman of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB); and Rudy De Leeuw, President of the General Labour Federation of Belgium (FGTB).
For the past 30 years, economic globalization has accelerated, and its effects are felt in nearly all economic areas and the day-to-day lives of many million people in various ways.International trade and investment deals have been a key driver of this phen

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers will discuss the broad outline of a new health accord at a working dinner on Friday night, but multiple federal and provincial sources say it is unlikely to lead to a deal.

On a day celebrating the woman described as Canada’s Rosa Parks, a black MP rose in the House of Commons to recount the first time he heard the N-word.
He was four.
“I didn’t know what it meant but the word stung,” Quebec Liberal Greg Fergus said in a powerful member’s statement Thursday.
Liberal MP Greg Fergus speaks in the House of Commons on Dec. 8, 2016.
But just imagine, Fergus said, how Viola Desmond felt on the fateful day in 1946 when she dared, with the kin

OTTAWA — An Ontario First Nation has filed a lawsuit seeking aboriginal title over much of downtown Ottawa, including Parliament Hill.
"The Algonquin Anishinabe Nation has never surrendered its title to the Kichi Sibi lands," says the band's statement of claim filed Wednesday in Ontario's Superior Court.
The claim includes islands in the Ottawa River, as well as a long portion of its south bank that includes Parliament, the Supreme Court, the National Library and the Canadian War Museum. I